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Fireworks AI releases Inkling, a 975B multimodal MoE model

Fireworks AI has released Inkling, a new 975 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model. This multimodal model, which can process text, image, and audio, is available under the Apache 2.0 license. Inkling is designed as a strong foundation for fine-tuning and is accessible through Fireworks AI's platform and the Tinker platform. AI

IMPACT Provides a powerful, open-weight multimodal foundation for developers to build upon.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Fireworks AI releases Inkling, a 975B multimodal MoE model

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  1. X — Fireworks (inference infra) TIER_1 English(EN) · FireworksAI_HQ ·

    The best base model for training isn't about someone else's benchmarks.

    The best base model for training isn't about someone else's benchmarks. Excited to offer @thinkymachines' first open-weights model: Inkling. 975B MoE, multimodal, with Apache 2.0. A great foundation for fine-tuning. Available day-zero. https://t.co/vXAVqfpRX9